Kent E. Calder

Kent E. Calder (born April 18, 1948) is a distinguished Edwin O. Reischauer Professor. He is the Director of the Japan Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies.^[2]

Calder joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1983 after teaching for four years at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. He is also the first executive director of Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Utah. A specialist in Japanese trade and industrial policy, he has focused on how politics and social structure affect the Japanese economy. Since 1990, he has directed the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Calder took a leave from the university from 1996 to 1999 to serve as special adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Japan, working under Walter Mondale and Thomas Foley. He also has held staff positions with the U.S. Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and has served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1990. He joined Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003.^[3]

Calder is the author of numbers of books and articles. In particular, his book Pacific Defense is the first publication by an American to receive the Mainichi Grand Prix in Asia-Pacific Studies in 1997 for its analysis of how economic change is transforming the U.S.-East Asia security equation. His most recent book, Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power, was published in 2014. His works have been translated into foreign languages including Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.

Calder received his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 1979, where he worked under the Direction of Edwin Reischauer. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Japanese government for his contributions to the development of Japan studies in the United States and the enhancement of mutual understanding between the two countries. He is also the recipient of the Ohira, Arisawa, and Mainichi Asia-Pacific Prizes for his academic work.^[4]

Selected publications

Books

• Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2014).^[5]
• The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (New Haven: Yale University Press, May 2012).^[6]
• The Making of Northeast Asia co-author with Min Ye (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).^[7]
• Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
• East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability, co-editor with Francis Fukuyama (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
• Korea's Energy Insecurities: Comparative and Regional Perspectives (Washington DC: Korea Economic Institute of America, 2005).^[8]
• Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).^[9]
• Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia (New Haven:Yale University Press, 1996).^[10]
• Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993).^[11]
• Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988).^[12]
• The Eastasia Edge, co-author with Roy Hofheinz (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Articles

• Energy is the key to 21st century Eurasian geopolitics^[13]
• Japan’s Energy Angst and the Caspian Great Game^[14]
• Letter From Tokyo: New Regime, New Relationship? A New Era in U.S.-Japanese Relations^[15]
• China and Japan's Simmering Rivalry^[16]
• The New Face of Northeast Asia^[17]
• Asia's Empty Tank^[18]
• Review: Japanese Foreign Economic Policy Formation: Explaining the Reactive State^[19]
• Coping with North Korea's Energy Future: KEDO and Beyond^[20]
• Resource Development and Arctic Governance: An American Perspective^[21]
• U.S. Climate Policy and Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation^[22]
• Alliance Endangered? Challenges from the Changing Political-Economic Context of U.S.-Japan Relations^[23]
• Beneath the Eagle's Wings? The Political Economy of Northeast Asian Burden-Sharing in Comparative Perspective^[24]
• Coping with energy insecurity: China’s response in global perspective^[25]
• Halfway to Hegemony: Japan's Tortured Trajectory^[26]

Selected lectures and interviews

Available online in audio/video with external links:

• Beyond Fukushima: Japan's Emerging Energy and Environmental Challenges, April 5, 2012, at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia.^[27]
• The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics, July 5, 2012, at Asan Institute, Seoul, South Korea.^[28]
• Dr. Calder: The New Continentalism: Energy and 21st Century Eurasian Geopolitics, September 17, 2012, at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington DC.^[29]
• The Making of Northeast Asia,^[30] at the East West Center, Washington DC.
• Dr. Kent E. Calder on NHK World Wave, December 19, 2011^[31]
• Public Lecture: Kent Calder Book Talk: The Making of Northeast Asia^[32]
• Managing Risk and Security in East Asia^[33]
• ケント・カルダー　ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学高等国際問題研究大学院, June 14, 2013, at Japan National Press Club,^[34]
• ケント・カルダー_5_日本経済再生の処方せんは, interviewed by Japanese media NHK on December 17, 2012.^[35]
• シリーズ「日米中」①ケント・カルダー氏　October 19, 2009 at Japan National Press Club^[36]

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